General Works on University History

Boyer, John W.  The University of Chicago: A History.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015.

Goodspeed, Thomas W. A History of the University of Chicago: The First Quarter-Century. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1916.

________. The Story of the University of Chicago, 1890-1925. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1925.

________. The University of Chicago Biographical Sketches. 2 vols. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1922-24.

Haggerty, William James. "The Purposes of the University of Chicago." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Chicago, 1943.

Johnson, Brandon L., with Daniel Meyer, John W. Boyer, and Alice Schreyer. Building for a Long Future: The University of Chicago and Its Donors, 1889-1930. Exhibition catalogue. Chicago: University of Chicago Library, 2001. See also the online text of this exhibition.

Kadens, Emily. Creating a Sense of Society: The Quadrangle Club, 1893-1993. Chicago: Quadrangle Club, 1993.

Meyer, Daniel. "The Chicago Faculty and the University Ideal, 1891-1929." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Chicago, 1994.

Pugh, Willard J. "The Beginnings of Research at the University of Chicago." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Chicago, 1990.

__________. "A Curious Working of Cross Purposes in the Founding of the University of Chicago." History of Higher Education Annual, 1995 (15:93-126).

Reeves, Floyd W., et al. The University of Chicago Survey. 12 vols. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1933.

Robertson, David Allan. The Quarter-Centennial Celebration of the University of Chicago, June 2 to 6, 1916. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1918.

Shils, Edward, ed. Remembering the University of Chicago: Teachers, Scientists, and Scholars. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.

Storr, Richard J. Harper's University: The Beginnings; A History of the University of Chicago. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1966.

Talbot, Marion. More Than Lore. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1936.

The University and the City: A Centennial View of the University of Chicago. Exhibition catalogue. Chicago: University of Chicago Library, 1992. See also the online text of this exhibition.

University of Chicago. One in Spirit: A Retrospective Account of the University of Chicago on the Occasion of Its Centennial. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1991.

University of Chicago Press. The University of Chicago Press: Catalogue of Books & Journals, 1891-1965. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1967.

Witheridge, David E. "The Proposed 'Rockefeller University' of Augustus H. Strong: A Chapter in the Founding of the University of Chicago." A.M. thesis, University of Chicago, 1948.

Yoder, Frank. The University of Chicago Faculty: A Centennial View. Exhibition catalogue. Chicago: University of Chicago Library, 1991.